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- Comment on Teen creates memecoin, dumps it, earns $50,000 2 months ago:
What promises did he make?
Selling something that has no value for money to people who know it has no value isn’t a scam.
- Comment on Teen creates memecoin, dumps it, earns $50,000 2 months ago:
It’s none of those.
There is not, and never was, any belief or expectation that there was any path to resembling an actual currency. The entire market is shitty gambling hoping you’re the one who times their sale correctly.
- Comment on Teen creates memecoin, dumps it, earns $50,000 2 months ago:
IDK what you want to call it.
It’s silly to get mad at the kid for selling a shitty meme coin people were willing to pay for when that’s the whole reason they exist.
- Comment on Why some book fans are leaving Amazon-owned Goodreads in wake of the U.S. election 2 months ago:
I’ve pretty much tried everything. They’re all relatively similar, but I don’t think any have the bulk edit option, and even with the fact that I only can manage a couple lists on goodreads (because I just read too much fiction and ended up erasing them), not having it is too much of a downgrade for me. (Though it has been a little while, and they were all pretty clearly in their infancy when I tried them.)
Rolling my own is going to have to be the way I go, too, eventually. It’s probably the only way I get series and authors as first class citizens in lists, and should make it easy for me to spin up quick lists for specific discussions in a way that is very low friction. I get sidetracked too easily and haven’t just buckled down and done it though.
- Comment on Why some book fans are leaving Amazon-owned Goodreads in wake of the U.S. election 2 months ago:
It’s not for me.
An app is good interface wise, but if I was going to stick to a single OS it would be iPhone. But I do want it to be server based. I need the access to their database of books to keep a reasonable list, and a big part of the reason I keep it organized is for the ability to share lists in relevant conversations. I just don’t have any interest in feeds of friends lists or any of that.
Goodreads version actually kind of sucks. A shared list doesn’t keep my ordering and doesn’t surface my reviews as part of the list. I’d also prefer to be able to put a series or author into a list, with a “review” of them as a whole over an individual book. But none of the others have an acceptable bulk edit tool that lets me go through 50 books at a time checking boxes to make bulk edits. They want me to manually search each book to add to a list one at a time, when even Amazon’s version is an incredibly tedious prospect.
- Comment on Why some book fans are leaving Amazon-owned Goodreads in wake of the U.S. election 2 months ago:
I’d love to, but the functionality of alternatives isn’t good enough for me.
I have zero interest in any of the social media stuff. I just want to track my books and make lists with UX that actually works.
- Comment on Check Out the Highest-Resolution Images Ever Captured of the Sun's Entire Surface 2 months ago:
I like this one.
- Comment on Microsoft’s controversial Recall scraper is finally entering public preview 2 months ago:
The idea is moderately appealing. I’ve definitely tried to find “that one thing that mentioned that other thing I saw 2 weeks ago” before.
But outside of Facebook (and TikTok/tencent/whoever), Microsoft is right up there with companies I wouldn’t consider letting anywhere near it. And the complete absence of any concept of security in their first version would have completely disqualified it from being trustworthy even without their awful track record. You don’t do something, then “add security” and get acceptable results.
- Comment on Singapore consumer watchdog sees doubling of complaints about lines on phone screens 2 months ago:
From 14 to 31 is still pretty rare. (I checked, population is ~6mil).
And at such a low rate relative to the population, if you’re assuming most cases don’t report it, the difference in reporting could pretty easily be increased awareness that reporting it was an option or some other similar cause unrelated to an actual increased failure rate.
- Comment on You know what, fuck you [un-Jags uar icon] 2 months ago:
Yeah, I see that, too, but at least everything else is all smooth curves. The hard angle on the g makes it stick out as super different.
- Comment on You know what, fuck you [un-Jags uar icon] 2 months ago:
That font is awful. The G looks completely unrelated to any of the other letters.
- Comment on Weekends were a mistake, says Infosys co-founder Narayama Murthy 2 months ago:
- Comment on Apple's controversial iPhone accessory may have been discontinued 2 months ago:
And when it’s junk out of the box because random no-name Amazon cables are universally terrible?
- Comment on Apple's controversial iPhone accessory may have been discontinued 2 months ago:
It’s $10 and high quality? How much do you think you’re saving with a junk off brand one?
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 2 months ago:
lol the problem with Destiny is they turned it into a treadmill.
Elden Ring can easily take more than 100 hours on your first playthrough, and different builds significantly change your play style.
BG3, similar deal. Subsequent playthroughs are probably going to be accelerated, but there are a bunch of different story choices you can make that feel different, the party members have their own story lines, there’s a special custom character called Dark Urge that’s intended for a later playthrough that has it’s own twist, and you can change the strategy of encounters a lot with different party constructions.
Rimworld calls itself a story generator because you’re going to fail and have people die and whatever, but every game plays out different, there are a good couple scenarios, and there’s expansions and mods you can add on top of that for variety.
Just the first couple that come to mind. I’m not near 1000 hours on any of them, but they all have a lot of content.
- Comment on French court blocks Google project to limit news content in searches 3 months ago:
If those sites think that being linked to is a service they’re providing Google (which demanding payment implies), then Google is just fulfilling their wishes.
- Comment on Oopsies 3 months ago:
It’s a decent book overall. If you’re interested in the theory behind choice architecture it’s worth a read.
But yeah, read it a couple months ago and remembered it specifically addressed this question.
- Comment on Oopsies 3 months ago:
In fact, the truth is surprisingly simple: much depends merely on what happens if people don’t make a decision, something called a no-action default, or simply a default. The countries on the left of the graph ask you to choose to be an organ donor, and those on the right ask you to choose not to be a donor. If you do not make an active choice, you are, by default, a nondonor in Germany and a donor in Austria.
Dan and I wanted to understand this. We started by asking a sample of Americans whether they would be donors or not by presenting them with a choice on a webpage. One group, the opt-in condition, was told that they had just moved to a new state where the default was not to be an organ donor, and they were given a chance to change that status with a simple click of a mouse. A second group, the opt-out condition, saw an identical scenario, except the default was to be a donor. They could indicate that they did not want to be a donor with a mouse click. The third group was simply required to choose; they needed to check one box or the other to go on to the next page. This neutral ques-tion, with nothing prechecked, is a mandated-choice condi-tion; it’s important, because it shows what people do when they are forced to choose.
The effect of the default was remarkably strong: when they had to opt in, only 42 percent agreed to donate, but when they had to opt out, 82 percent agreed to donate. The most interesting result was from those forced to make a choice: 79 percent said they would be a donor, almost the same percentage of donors as in the opt-out condition. The only difference between the group that was asked to opt out and those who were forced to make a choice was that we forced the respondents in the mandated-choice condition to pick either box before they could go forward. It shows that if forced to make a choice, most participants would become donors. Otherwise, if they were given a default, most simply took it, whatever it was.
From Elements of Choice by Eric Johnson
It’s more complicated than the one example, and he covers it further, but as a rough guideline, it looks like forced choice and opt out are similar in this case. Which would make sense because the opposition is mostly religious and strict religious people are more motivated to opt out.
- Comment on I want to feel like a bad-ass wizard 3 months ago:
Magic damage felt spikier than other classes to me in Elden Ring, to the point early and mid-game where there were segments where I would run out of magic before getting through crowds even with all blue flasks.
- Comment on I want to feel like a bad-ass wizard 3 months ago:
Hogwarts Legacy. Combat is fast and brutal.
The side stuff feels kind of bland mechanically and something about the open world doesn’t capture me like I want it to, but it’s pretty good pure magic combat.
- Comment on Microsoft is struggling to get Windows Recall out the door — delays releasing first public preview. 3 months ago:
They disabled it by default after shipping it as a security nightmare in preview builds.
You can’t add security after the fact. If it isn’t built with security as a primary design goal months before you write a line of code, it will never be secure.
- Comment on PS5 Pro just got even more expensive as Sony admits these accessories won't work. 3 months ago:
The one with the regular PS5 is incredibly stable.
- Comment on PS5 Pro just got even more expensive as Sony admits these accessories won't work. 3 months ago:
Why would you think other covers were going to work?🤷🏼♀️
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 3 months ago:
Don’t be pieces of shit and you won’t owe refunds.
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 3 months ago:
It runs with higher priveleges than you have and can see anything that happens on your computer.
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 3 months ago:
Adding kernel malware after the fact should entitle every single owner who requests one to a full refund no matter how long has passsed.
- Comment on Don’t fall for AI scams cloning cops’ voices, police warn 3 months ago:
lol what’s the benefit of AI exactly? I’m not going to know if some random caller sounds like a real cop.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
It sure as hell looks like plenty of information on the offender to me.
- Comment on Google creating an AI agent to use your PC on your behalf, says report | Same PR nightmare as Windows Recall 3 months ago:
I could see the appeal as open source, self hosted software.
Not from data vacuums.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 3 months ago:
It’s not remotely within the realm of plausibility that Adam Altman genuinely believes any of the horseshit he spews. (And that’s ignoring that they gained their funding by lying about the core intent of their organization by pretending to be serving the public interest and not profiteering.)
